about a week and a half ago the energy information report that highlights weekly changes in the amount of gasoline and oil produced finally showed a very good report. in fact a surprising report to many. crude oil inventories had increased eight and a half million barrels in just one week's time. we saw overall total inventories of gasoline and crude oil jump a significant amount. i think that is what is leading to the selloff in oil and gasoline. melissa: yeah. and in fact we saw oil fall about 7%. gasoline dropped about 5% as i think you said in the futures market. do you think this is going to stick around though because i watch all of the sabre-rattling going on acrosstown and at the u.n. and i don't know? what do you think? >> well, there's a lot of asterisks behind how long this will stick around, a month, a year, not long enough. i'm sure many motorists will agree with. i think we'll see this in the cooler months. this situation tends to play out. i was looking past year's data in the run-up to the election of the prices can move up. they can move down. this year prices may be m